Capture of nanomagnetic 'fingerprints' a boost for next-generation information storage media
Thursday, January 29, 2009 - 12:28
in Physics & Chemistry
In the race to develop the next generation of storage and recording media, a major hurdle has been the difficulty of studying the tiny magnetic structures that will serve as their building blocks. Now a team of physicists at the University of California, Davis, has developed a technique to capture the magnetic "fingerprints" of certain nanostructures - even when they are buried within the boards and junctions of an electronic device.